On 30 Nov, Tim Hill wrote in message
<56a3223323...@timil.com>:
> I just can't believe that a URL can contain 33% more letters than the King
> James Bible's 3,116,480.
>
> "four gigabytes per URL"
>
> LOL
In RISC OS terms, it's another way of saying "limited by available
memory"...
--
Ste
On 30 Nov, Harriet Bazley wrote in message
:
> On 28 Nov 2017 as I do recall,
> Daniel Silverstone wrote:
>
> > I don't believe we limit URL length per-se, though they get interned and
> > as such four gigabytes per URL is probably the absolute limit. In
> > addition, POST data is
On 2017-11-30 14:32, Tim Hill wrote:
I just can't believe that a URL can contain 33% more letters than the
King James Bible's 3,116,480.
Hmm; 33% more than 3,116,480 is roughly 4 MB, not GB.
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Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own
In article <56a1aa7e00joh...@ukgateway.net>,
John Williams wrote:
> What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf can
> handle?
What may be relevant is the following entry from my web server error
logs:
2017-10-02 02:57:45: (response.c.553) file not found ... or so: File
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 02:32:29PM +, Tim Hill wrote:
>
> I just can't believe that a URL can contain 33% more letters than the
> King James Bible's 3,116,480.
>
> "four gigabytes per URL"
It's probably much greater than that on modern systems, too!
B.
In article , Harriet Bazley
wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2017 as I do recall, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 18:08:46 +, John Williams wrote:
> > > What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf
> > > can handle?
> >
> > I don't believe we limit URL length per
On 28 Nov 2017 as I do recall,
Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 18:08:46 +, John Williams wrote:
> > What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf can
> > handle?
>
> I don't believe we limit URL length per-se, though they get interned and as
>
In article <20171128115425.22cudniq3zrfba3l@somnambulist.local>,
Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> I don't believe we limit URL length per-se, though they get interned and
> as such four gigabytes per URL is probably the absolute limit. In
> addition, POST data is nominally unlimited though I belie
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 18:08:46 +, John Williams wrote:
> What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf can
> handle?
I don't believe we limit URL length per-se, though they get interned and as
such four gigabytes per URL is probably the absolute limit. In addition, POST
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:08:46PM +, John Williams wrote:
> An genuine real-life number would be better!
>From memory, they are dynamically allocated as needed and can be of
arbitrary length. This is a lot more efficient than using
statically-sized buffers for the worst common case, especial
In message <56a1b699dcjoh...@ukgateway.net>
John Williams wrote:
> In article <0612b1a156.ga...@wra1th.plus.com>,
> Gavin Wraith wrote:
> So you're suggesting that I measure each URL length first, perhaps BGETting
> it until I encounter a terminator, and then DIM a variable accordin
On 27 Nov, John Williams wrote in message
<56a1b699dcjoh...@ukgateway.net>:
> In article <0612b1a156.ga...@wra1th.plus.com>,
>Gavin Wraith wrote:
>
> > I would DIM buffers for URLs from the heap as you need them.
>
> So you're suggesting that I measure each URL length first, perhaps
> BG
In article <0612b1a156.ga...@wra1th.plus.com>,
Gavin Wraith wrote:
> From a quick glance at the NetSurf 3.7 sources I would guess that the
> answer rather depends on which platform, and then on the particular
> machine NetSurf is running on.
I am, of course, running RISC OS.
> If your menu p
In message <56a1aa7e00joh...@ukgateway.net>
John Williams wrote:
> What is the maximum URL length (including POST data) that NetSurf can
> handle?
>From a quick glance at the NetSurf 3.7 sources I would guess that the
answer rather depends on which platform, and then on the particular
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